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ExtraGravy
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re: If everyone in Europe had a gun and no body had a gun in US which would have more murders
Posted by ExtraGravy on 4/21/24 at 4:34 pm
Switzerland has some of the most permissive gun ownership laws in the world, and they are estimated to own about 27 firearms per 100 residents. They have a murder rate of 0.5 per 100,000.
To compare to the US: we own about 120 firearms per 100 residents. Our murder rate is about 6.4 per 100,000.
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re: Does LSU not give a crap about smart, in-state high school students?
Posted by ExtraGravy on 3/24/24 at 10:14 am
[quote][b]Unless you live in Shreveport[/b] or you think your son isn’t mature enough to handle being away, the experience of being on your own and away is great for any kids going into college[/quote]
Why is Shreveport a factor here?...
WSJ: "Insurers Rake In Profits as Customers Pay Soaring Premiums"
Posted by ExtraGravy on 1/25/24 at 11:05 am
[quote]Consumer advocates say the industry’s rate requests can be a one-way street: policyholders are punished when insurers incur losses, but get little relief when they swing back to profitability.
During the pandemic, for instance, auto insurers raked in outsize profits as people stayed at ho...
re: How to find $150000 in funding with no job for an airbnb?
Posted by ExtraGravy on 1/14/24 at 10:18 am
[quote]Depends on the owner. Mine is a large, newish apartment complex. I talked to the owner, told him exactly what id be doing. I am a good renter for them. Rent is autodrafted. The apartment always stays clean and staged well. They can use it to show potential renters when guests arent there.
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re: What jobs typically make $250,000-$500,000 annually to provide for these lovely ladies?
Posted by ExtraGravy on 1/8/24 at 9:56 pm
if you're making much under 250k in NYC, you're having a really tough time making a go of it in that town....
re: Excessive litigation costs the Louisiana economy $5.17B per year
Posted by ExtraGravy on 1/8/24 at 7:03 pm
[quote]States where judges are appointed rather than elected do not have as many problems with nuclear verdicts, and the plaintiff’s bar is not the state’s biggest industry.[/quote]
Not according to this insurance industry funded lobbying publication:
https://instituteforlegalreform.com/research...
re: Insurance rates up? Here's why.
Posted by ExtraGravy on 1/4/24 at 8:43 am
[quote]Over the last several years insurance companies have [b]paid out more in claims than they have collected in premium[/b], especially in auto liability claims.[/quote]
This story from June says the insurers have had a high loss ratio, but not that they "paid out more in claims than they have...
re: I wonder where this Harvard student is now
Posted by ExtraGravy on 12/19/23 at 10:08 am
Hopefully Bezos hired him, because the student was correct. If all Bezos was going to do was keep selling books Amazon had no future. In 1997, Amazon was just a bookseller and would have been destroyed once the established booksellers got more established online, if it had no other lines of business...
re: These are the teens who deliberately struck and killed retired cop Andreas Probts in Vegas
Posted by ExtraGravy on 9/22/23 at 8:36 am
I realize this is the wrong place to say this but: at first I thought they had no real case against the passenger. I realize he's a sociopath, but he wasn't the driver.
However it appears that he was egging the driver on:
https://nypost.com/2023/09/19/second-teen-arrested-for-murder-of-retired-...
Uptown Climbing Baton Rouge- how bad busy on weekends?
Posted by ExtraGravy on 8/7/23 at 7:52 pm
Looking at going to Uptown Climbing this weekend, taking a group of about 6 including kids etc. They told us "it gets busy after lunch on the weekends" but weren't very specific.
Obviously it varies from day to day I guess, but if anyone here goes there and could give me their impressions I'd app...
re: West Memphis three
Posted by ExtraGravy on 5/24/23 at 11:53 am
[quote]I believe they even told cell mates.[/quote]
I'm not telling you that your view of the case is wrong. But "cellmate testifies that defendant confessed to him" is not very convincing. Fellow prisoners have a lot to gain by lying....
re: West Memphis three
Posted by ExtraGravy on 5/24/23 at 11:20 am
We'll never know unfortunately. The evidence on the scene was not terribly convincing in connecting anyone to the murders, and after that the police and prosecutors made an absolute idiotic muck out of it.
I did watch the documentary and saw that girl testify she was walking by Echols and heard h...
re: Bill Gates had affair with Russian Bridge player in 2010. Jeff Epstein blackmailed him.
Posted by ExtraGravy on 5/21/23 at 1:41 pm
This is nothing but my opinion after reading but- her version of events, to the extent they involved her, sounds very believable. Not that I think anyone's called her a liar.
And note too, she declines to comment at all about Gates.
Basically, young girl has brief relationship with rich older ...
re: Man takes woman home, she drugs him, takes $600k NSFW
Posted by ExtraGravy on 5/19/23 at 6:16 pm
this happens all the time in Miami. There are always groups of girls doing this [b]to tourists[/b]. I'm convinced the police are in on it, although it's also true that the victims are usually upper middle-class guys and don't want to create a police report because they have wives to worry about.
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re: Explain to me like I'm 5 why 200,000 LA workers have quit their jobs in 2023
Posted by ExtraGravy on 5/19/23 at 8:11 am
[quote]Explain to me like I'm 5 why 200,000 LA workers have quit their jobs in 2023[/quote]
Badly written story- for not explaining the answer. They are quitting because there are so many other jobs available.
Keep in mind: firings are at a near-record low, quitting is at a record high and has...
re: Ochsner to layoff 2% of its workforce today
Posted by ExtraGravy on 5/12/23 at 4:15 pm
[quote]Something tells me you know exactly what's going on. Even though you won't admit it because you tend to pop into threads like this and speak in a cryptic code, I bet you know that cutting rank and file en masse frees up Oschner to then bring on a boatload of physicians for the massive benefit...
re: Argument on an Airplane
Posted by ExtraGravy on 5/12/23 at 4:12 pm
the dude in the red jacket with glasses was mouthing off constantly and gave someone the stink-eye like he wanted to fight. Then he said "the problem is American culture, everybody's against each other all the time when we ought to be in it together." He paused in the middle of that rant to tell som...
re: Students picket Kansas high school to get female English teacher of 15 years fired
Posted by ExtraGravy on 5/11/23 at 5:43 pm
The teacher wrote an op-ed on her own time, expressing her personal political views. They can't fire her for that, dummy kids!...
re: Louisiana may have lost out on 50,000 jobs; $3 billion because of legal environment
Posted by ExtraGravy on 5/9/23 at 4:50 pm
whoa- business-funded group produces nice round number estimates (50,000 jobs! $3 billion!) that we've lost due to the "legal environment."
And of course, it's all trotted out just in time for election season.
Looks like only one solution: tort reform! It worked so well at lowering our insuran...
re: Mississippi TikTok Dad Bobby Moudy, father of 3, dies by suicide
Posted by ExtraGravy on 5/6/23 at 2:07 pm
Sadly some do. You never know a person's secret pain....
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